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I would love to have this guy that wrote that email come and post. I would like him to explain how so many of us went to sleep one night and the audio was ok, got up the next morning with the blue light on after an update and had dropouts from that day on. I really don't like it when someone tells me what I didn't see.

It would also add a little creditability to what's in that email.

I could live with the dropouts until it's fixed if I weren't paying top dollar for the service. It's like a place advertising a 12 oz cup of coffee and only filling it 3/4 full but charging for a full cup. It's just not right.

This is merely a data gathering thread. Please allow it to be so, and vent on the other mile long thread about this subject, please

I would love to have this guy that wrote that email come and post. I would like him to explain how so many of us went to sleep one night and the audio was ok, got up the next morning with the blue light on after an update and had dropouts from that day on. I really don't like it when someone tells me what I didn't see.

It would also add a little creditability to what's in that email.

I could live with the dropouts until it's fixed if I weren't paying top dollar for the service. It's like a place advertising a 12 oz cup of coffee and only filling it 3/4 full but charging for a full cup. It's just not right.

------------------------------------------------------------------------A fool finds no pleasure in understanding but delights in airing his own opinions.

Trying to keep a thread on track is like trying to herd cats.Hopefully the rants & complaining will keep to a minimum as I asked in the first post.The goal of the thread is to list the channels that have the most issues and which AVRs are being used.

Wow, its on pretty much all the channels I watch (except the local channels). Syfy, Cartoon, USA, ESPN and ESPN2. FX too. Cartoon is the worst for it though. Happens rarely on Fox News. It has been comical during Warehouse 13 where it seems to be timed to be a 1970's era censor. It has dropped out on crap, fraking, hell, and damn (I could tell from context and I got the fraking from a rerun).

Can we quit posting channels now? Looks like most of them have been reported. VOS, since you seem to be the only one with any DirecTV inside knowledge of this problem can you ask them to comment on the status and when the issue can be resolved.

Can we quit posting channels now? Looks like most of them have been reported. VOS, since you seem to be the only one with any DirecTV inside knowledge of this problem can you ask them to comment on the status and when the issue can be resolved.

While the channels may have been posted enough, please keep posting the frequency, length, and what your model of AVR is, as this looks to be the most important aspect as to how each of us see different amounts of these dropouts.

While the channels may have been posted enough, please keep posting the frequency, length, and what your model of AVR is, as this looks to be the most important aspect as to how each of us see different amounts of these dropouts.

While that may well be interesting shouldn't the main focus be to get DirecTV or whatever is causing the glitch in the DD audio stream fixed and not worry about how long AVR's are taking to recover from them?

While that may well be interesting shouldn't the main focus be to get DirecTV or whatever is causing the glitch in the DD audio stream fixed and not worry about how long AVR's are taking to recover from them?

The message I got today said this [the model] was important information to them and this was not "busy work".Only after reading how some other models take longer than mine does, do I see now how some have this much more than I have had, since mine have been very short, but then my receiver doesn't take 1-2 seconds to cycle through the same glitch and some glitches that the receiver "sees" I don't hear as they are so short.

The message I got today said this [the model] was important information to them and this was not "busy work".Only after reading how some other models take longer than mine does, do I see now how some have this much more than I have had, since mine have been very short, but then my receiver doesn't take 1-2 seconds to cycle through the same glitch and some glitches that the receiver "sees" I don't hear as they are so short.

Guess I just have to disagree with the direction that this is going then. It's like the old Doctor story about the man that says his arm hurts when he moves it like this, the Doctor says then don't move it like that anymore. Same thing goes, get rid of the glitch in the DD audio stream then who cares how long an AVR takes to recover from an error.

Also, maybe it's two different issues, one with error in the audio coming from the provider and the other an error being introduced by DirecTV. I logged drops at the same exact location in a Showtime east and west coast feed, which you said is probably error cause by Showtime.

Guess I just have to disagree with the direction that this is going then. It's like the old Doctor story about the man that says his arm hurts when he moves it like this, the Doctor says then don't move it like that anymore. Same thing goes, get rid of the glitch in the DD audio stream then who cares how long an AVR takes to recover from an error.

Also, maybe it's two different issues, one with error in the audio coming from the provider and the other an error being introduced by DirecTV. I logged drops at the same exact location in a Showtime east and west coast feed, which you said is probably error cause by Showtime.

That were backed up by my exact same drops on Showtime West.

If you stop responding to them or put them on ignore, then eventually they'll go away.

I do see your point, and not sure why this information is so useful to the broadcast center, but they have asked for it and assured me it isn't "busy work", so I will try to keep being the go between and hope they will keep me in the loop to feed information both ways.

Just turned DD back on the other day to get some data. I haven't watched too much since turning it back on, but I got dropouts on:
Discovery HD
CNN HD
Animal Planet HD

Have an Onkyo TX-SR805. The dropouts usually last between 2 and 4 seconds. I don't really understand why they need this info though. I am hoping that they don't just come out with a list of recommended receivers to use with Directv instead of actually fixing the problem.

Folks, I've done a lot of cleanup in this thread. I appreciate some of you answering questions while I was sleeping, I genuinely do. But I feel the discussion was off topic and was in some cases bordering on questioning moderation. In order to avoid issuing infractions right and left I've simply deleted parts of this thread that didn't pertain to the topic.

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